New Sofa

A few days ago me misses bought a second hand sofa on an Internet auction. It arrived from Hokkaido this afternoon. It is a long way from where we are, but it only cost 15 quid to ship it. The inevitable demise of our old sofa followed immediately and it really did remind me of skining a large animal, dragging it outside and getting all the toxic nasties off to leave the frame clean for burning. I chopped up some of the wood for the stove, but a lot went into a bonfire outside in the field between the house and the river below. The timing was good again as we were able to put all the skin and blubber into bags and get it up to the rubbish men in time for their pick up. Then, once they had gone with that, we all hoiked a load more metal up for them to consider tomorrow.
It was fully dark by the time I had got the last bits settled below the rim of the fire. I had a load of cardboard, which made a warm and comfortable seat on the ground. No sound of boar in the woods, maybe their recent losses are making them more cautious.

Pentel pastels and charcola on cartridge 25x35cm